There Is A Batman Hotel Room With Your Name On It

Astronomers Discover Black Hole 12 Billion Times Bigger Than Our Sun

Researchers at Peking University have announced the discovery of one of the largest black holes known to science. The black hole, named SDSS J010013.02, is 12 billion times bigger than our sun, and six times bigger than other black holes of equivalent age.

Man Builds ‘Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon Guitar

Comic Book Heroes Mixed with Mythology!

Hey everyone! Welcome to the first complete edition of The Drawing Board here on the SourceFed website. Like we said last week, we’re really excited about this format and we hope you are too. This week’s theme was Comic Book Heroes Mixed with Mythology. We had some pretty kick ass designs for this so without further ado, LET’S TAKE A LOOK! These first three all come from Ioannis Hadjikyriakou. The Speedy Messenger Well done. The Flash here is running through Centropolis, which, along with the S.T.A.R. temple, are a great couple of nods toward The Flash’s mythology. The circular stitching

Turkish Men Take To The Streets In Mini-Skirts For Women’s Rights

The February 11 murder of 20-year-old Turkish woman Ozgecan Aslan has sparked international outrage, with men and women vehemently protesting the brutal strain of violence against women and gender inequality in the country.

If you haven’t heard, the DeFranco Creative team is officially welcoming the wonderful YouTube gamer and animator Steven Suptic into our arsenal of friends and hosts. Suptic is now a producer and host for Discovery Digital Networks‘ video division, officially joining the network’s comedic entertainment news and information series, SourceFed/SourceFedNERD. Steven’s YouTube channel, where he goes by mlgHwnt has over 545,000 subscribers watching his content. Along with his kick ass gaming skills, he’s also a skilled animator and has animated many projects, including the series To Kill a YouTuber. We’re super excited to have him here, so we sat him

Aquaman’s Costume Revealed and More DC Comic News!

The Island That Never Was

The Island That Never Was – ‘Sandy Island’ is an island that supposedly existed for 116 years, but now scientists say otherwise.

‘Sandy Island,’ believed to be located between Australia and the New French Caledonia, was missing from it was listed on both Google Maps and the World Coastline Database.

The ‘Manhattan-sized’ island has been speculated to be in many different location, but roughly all of the seem to rougly between Australia and New French Caledonia. On Google Earth, the island turns into a black blur when you try to zoom in to see what it looks like and can not be located in the search bar, you have to search for the island by scrolling through the ocean.

For the past 116 years, Sandy Island was been believed to exist by numerous sources. Jethro Lennox, a publisher of The Times Atlas of the World, stated:

“Back in the 19th century, cartographers would gather their information from various sources like explorers or even sailors, so you could never have a perfect map.”

From 1967, The Times Atlas of the World identified the phantom isle, in the supposedly French territorial waters, as Sable Island, but was among few publications to remove it from the map, when it got new bathymetric data in 1999. It also does not appear on French maps from 2000. Local weather maps placed it 700 miles from the coast of Brisbane, Australia.

Maria Seton and Researcher Micklethwaite set out on a research expedition to study plate tectonics and this mysterious island happened to be on their route, and decided to sail by the island. The captain of the vessel was weary of the danger of running aground, but to their surprise they sailed straight through the island on the map. They speculate that decades ago when cartographers where assembling a world map, the island just happened to be added based on sailors memories. Along with the weather conditions of that region always covered the supposed location, the mistake is kind of understandable.

It is possible that it is a “paper town” or in this case, a paper island. Paper towns are fictitious places put on maps as copyright traps, to make sure people wouldn’t steal maps. Over time, that information may have been lost, but it kept showing up on maps.

No problem. It was a topic in a book by one of the Vlogbrothers, John Green. You might have increased luck with searching “copyright traps” rather than paper towns, as that tends to bring up a lot of stuff about the book.